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21) Leaves of grass
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A debut entry in a suspenseful series begins the adventures of Jake Tiptree's onetime helper, Lizzie Snow, who takes over as Eastport's police chief only to find herself stalked by a deadly adversary from her past. By the best-selling author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Because he looks like the drug dealer Bobby Z, and he wants to get out of his life sentence for killing a fellow Hell's Angel, Tim Kerney decides to impersonate Bobby Z and be given to a drug kingpin in exchange for a captured DEA agent.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces...
28) Crackdown
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern-day pirates who sink Nick's yacht before vanishing with the senator's kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail...
30) Weeds: Season 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a marijuana dealing soccer mom.
33) Unit 7
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
The four officers of Unit 7 have a tough mission: eliminate the city's most dangerous drug trafficking network before the opening of the 1992 Seville World Exhibition. The film follows Angel (Mario Casas), Miguel (Joaquín Nún̈ez) the leader of the unit, and Mateo (José Manuel Poga) an aspiring detective, and Rafael (Antonio de la Torre), a violent yet effective force to be reckoned with. Failure is not an option in this compelling action thriller...
34) Cartel Land
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across...
35) Powder Burn
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's gripping debut A witness to a gangland murder must outwit and outrun the vicious hit men on his trail-before it's too late Chris Meadows's charmed life as an up-and-coming architect has kept him far removed from Miami's bloody drug trade. But his comfortable existence comes crashing down around him when Chris witnesses the hit-and-run death of an ex-girlfriend by a car full of drug smuggling gangsters....
36) Suspicion
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The thriller to read in 2014, about a single father who is forced to make a choice with unspeakable consequences-from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder . When single father Danny Goodman suddenly finds himself unable to afford the private school his teenage daughter adores, he has no one to turn to for financial support. In what seems like a stroke of brilliant luck, Danny meets Thomas Galvin, the father of his daughter's new best...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner . A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one of Britain's most renowned postwar writers. Though Henry cannot see, he is able to view the world through the radio waves, eavesdropping on global affairs and secret transmissions with his mastery of Morse code....
Author
Language
English
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Description
God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation In Gasconade County, Missouri -- once called the meth capital of the world -- Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong, there is a consequence....
39) American dirt
Author
Language
English
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"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
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